Pippard A.B. Elements of Classical Thermodynamics for Advanced Students of Physics

Cambridge: At The University Press, 1966. — VIII + 165 p.The laws of thermodynamics are amongst the most assured and wide-ranging of all scientific laws. They do not pretend to explain any observation in molecular terms but, by showing the necessary relationships between different physical properties, they reduce otherwise disconnected results to compact order, and predict new effects. This classic title, first published in 1957, is a systematic exposition of principles, with examples of applications, especially to changes of places and the conditions for stability. In all this entropy is a key concept.The zeroth and first laws of thermodynamics
Fundamental definitions
Temperature
Internal energy and heat
Reversible changes
Reversibility and irreversibility
Different types of work
The second law of thermodynamics
A miscellany of useful ideas
Dimensions and related topics
Maxwell's thermodynamic relations
Identity of the absolute and perfect gas scales of temperature
Absolute zero, negative temperatures and the third law of thermodynamics
An elementary graphical method for solving thermodynamic problems
The functions U, H, F and G
Applications of thermodynamics to simple systems
Relations between the specific heats
The adiabatic equation
Magnetic analogues of the foregoing results
The Joule and Joule-Kelvin effects
Radiation
Surface tension and surface energy
Establishment of the absolute scale of temperature
The thermodynamic inequalities
The increase of entropy
The decrease of availability
The conditions for equilibrium
Phase equilibrium
The phase diagram of a simple substance
Clapeyron's equation
Liquid-vapour equilibrium and the critical point
Solid-liquid equilibrium
The phase diagram of helium
The superconducting phase transition
Higher-order transitions
Classification of transitions
Analogues of Clapeyron's equation
Critique of the theory of higher-order transitions
Exercises